ABOUT
Robin Scherrer

Who's this guy?

I'm a quantitative economics and finance student at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) with serious passion for econometrics, finance and data science.

Bachelor in Economics

Economics & Finance

  • Microeconomics I-III
  • Macroeconomics I-III
  • Term Paper: Demonetisation
  • Monetary Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Money, Banking and Finance

Programming & Data Science

  • Fundamentals of Data Science
  • Data Handling
  • From Data to Decision
  • Business Analytics and
    Data Science
  • Databases
  • Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Data Science
  • Programming
  • Programming for Data Science
  • Programming for Quantitative Analysis

Math, Econometrics & Statistics

  • Mathematics I-II
  • Mathematics for Economists
  • Statistics
  • Empirical Economic Research

Contextual Studies

  • Academic Writing
  • Integrative Project
  • Social Processes, Groups & Teams
  • Philosophical Thinking
  • Software Cultures
  • Business, Culture, Ethics
  • Digital Business Ethics

Law

  • Law I-II
  • Capital Markets Law

Business Administration

  • Business Administration I-II
  • Accountancy
  • Accounting, Controlling, Auditing

Languages

  • Russian A1
  • English C2

Skills

Python
R
SQL
Matlab
Experience
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Intern, Quantitative Analyst

From August 2022 to July 2023, I worked as an intern in the quantitative analysis and cross asset monitoring team at the Swiss National Bank. My tasks inclueded the enhancement of an R-Shiny application for performance attribution of fixed income portfolios, building an internal performance-analysis platform in the equity team and modelling a cross-currency basis swap function for relative value analysis.

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Junior Data Analyst

From August 2020 to July 2022, I worked as junior data analyst at St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade. My task in the data forensics team was to write R scripts to collect and analyse trade policy data.

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Junior Research Assistant

From September 2019 to September 2020, I worked at the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen. My tasks included developing and customising Wordpress websites and writing Python scripts.

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Application Developer

From April 2016 to April 2018, I worked at Bühler AG in addition to attending the TSME. My tasks included developing and customising SAP ERP transactions as well as customising the CRM system.

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Apprentice

From 2011 to 2015, I did my apprenticeship at Bühler AG as an application developer. During this time, I was able to gain a lot of work experience, as I was given responsibility for smaller SAP projects at an early stage.

Projects
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Traffic Collisions

This project was created during the course "Big Data Analytics" at the University of St. Gallen. On the first page, descriptive statistics about traffic collisions in California are shown. On the other pages, the collision predictions based on an OLS and XGBoost model can be explored.

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Presidential Influence on US Departmental Communication

The aim of this Bachelor's thesis was to find out whether there are tendencies that the communication of the departments of the United States of America is influenced by the acting president. To answer the research question, text data was collected through web scraping and examined thematically and rhetorically by various Natural Language Processing methods.
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Predicting Wildfires

This project was created during the course "Data Science Fundamentals" at the University of St. Gallen. The goal was to predict wildfires in California US based on climate data.
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Covid-19 Dashboard

This project was created during the course "Business Analytics and Data Science" at the University of St. Gallen. The goal was to predict covid-19 cases using machine learning and to visualise them in a R Shiny web application.
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